Dylan Shaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan Shaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaul |
| SIGNATURE | SHAUL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5109-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hegel and the Hollywood Western: Violence, Law and the Right of Heroes in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
This article explores the conjunction of Hegel and the Hollywood Western through a close analysis of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, adjudicating between competing readings of Hegel by considering their varied application to the interpretation of the film. In particular, I examine how Pippin’s reformist reading and Žižek’s revolutionary reading of Hegel produce different understandings of key themes of the Hollywood Western, including violence,…
The fate of the immortal soul: Hegel’s reply to Kant’s critique of Mendelssohn
Kant on the ‘Wise Adaptation’ of Our Cognitive Faculties: The Limits of Knowledge and the Possibility of the Highest Good
This article provides a new reconstruction and evaluation of Kant’s argument in §IX of the second Critique ’s Dialectic. Kant argues that our cognitive faculties are wisely adapted to our practical vocation since their failure to supply theoretical knowledge of God and the immortal soul is a condition of possibility for the highest good. This new reconstruction improves upon past efforts by greater fidelity to the form and content of Kant’s argum…
Derrida’s Neoplatonic Critique of Hegel: On the Gift of Being in Glas
This article argues that Derrida’s critique of Hegel in Glas should be understood as a modified Neoplatonic critique. Specifically, Derrida claims that Hegel’s systematic philosophical account of the speculative identity of Thought and Being is in fact conditioned by the prior unconditional gift of Being, which necessarily lies outside the Hegelian system. I argue that this gift of Being should be understood in terms of the Neoplatonic conception…
Why There Must Be Something Rather Than Nothing: A New Argument From the PSR
This article offers a new argument that there must be something rather than nothing, grounded in the PSR. Inspired by the rationalist tradition running from Parmenides to Spinoza and Leibniz, I argue that there must be something rather than nothing because the contrary would constitute a violation of the PSR. In particular, I argue that, if there was nothing, there could be no sufficient reason for it, since nothing at all would exist to serve as…
Hegel and Hitchcock’s Vertigo: On Reconciliation
This article reconstructs and evaluates a debate between Pippin and Žižek over the proper interpretation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, in relation to Hegel’s concept of reconciliation. Both Pippin and Žižek agree that Vertigo exemplifies Hegelian reconciliation: Scottie exhibits Hegel’s reconciliatory “negation of negation” when he realizes that his lost love Madeleine had really been Judy all along, thereby losing his original loss. Yet Pippin and Žiž…
“Everyone Says I Love You”: Four Comic Encomia on Love in the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers
Cet article analyse les quatre versions de la chanson « Everyone Says I Love You » dans le film Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932) des Marx Brothers, en tant que quatre éloges comiques sur l’amour, dans la tradition du Banquet de Platon. À l’instar des invités de Platon, Zeppo, Chico, Harpo et Groucho Marx offrent chacun une vision différente de l’amour et de ses vertus, qui se succèdent dans une séquence développementale. Faisant fond sur l…
Kristeva vis-à-vis Hegel: Forgiveness as Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Absolute Knowing
This article reconstructs and compares Kristeva’s account of psychoanalytic interpretation as a practice of forgiveness with Hegel’s account of the origin of Absolute Knowing in the forgiveness constitutive of mutual recognition. An emphasis on homologies between the memory-work of Kristevan psychoanalysis and the recollective process of Hegelian Absolute Knowing elicits deeper affinities between Kristeva and Hegel than have previously been suppo…
With ‘the delicacy of a bear: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the logic of anthropology
The Lévi-Strauss/Derrida debate saw two of the great minds of the twentieth-century wrestle with some of the most vexing problems of anthropological theory: the relationship between speech and writing, the violence of social life, and the logic (or lack thereof) of anthropology itself. A careful consideration of the debate uncovers three oscillations present in Lévi-Strauss’ corpus: between the affirmation and negation of the law of the excluded …
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With ‘the delicacy of a bear: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and the logic of anthropology
The Lévi-Strauss/Derrida debate saw two of the great minds of the twentieth-century wrestle with some of the most vexing problems of anthropological theory: the relationship between speech and writing, the violence of social life, and the logic (or lack thereof) of anthropology itself. A careful consideration of the debate uncovers three oscillations present in Lévi-Strauss’ corpus: between the affirmation and negation of the law of the excluded …
“Everyone Says I Love You”: Four Comic Encomia on Love in the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers
Cet article analyse les quatre versions de la chanson « Everyone Says I Love You » dans le film Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932) des Marx Brothers, en tant que quatre éloges comiques sur l’amour, dans la tradition du Banquet de Platon. À l’instar des invités de Platon, Zeppo, Chico, Harpo et Groucho Marx offrent chacun une vision différente de l’amour et de ses vertus, qui se succèdent dans une séquence développementale. Faisant fond sur l…
Kristeva vis-à-vis Hegel: Forgiveness as Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Absolute Knowing
This article reconstructs and compares Kristeva’s account of psychoanalytic interpretation as a practice of forgiveness with Hegel’s account of the origin of Absolute Knowing in the forgiveness constitutive of mutual recognition. An emphasis on homologies between the memory-work of Kristevan psychoanalysis and the recollective process of Hegelian Absolute Knowing elicits deeper affinities between Kristeva and Hegel than have previously been suppo…
Hegel and Hitchcock’s Vertigo: On Reconciliation
This article reconstructs and evaluates a debate between Pippin and Žižek over the proper interpretation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, in relation to Hegel’s concept of reconciliation. Both Pippin and Žižek agree that Vertigo exemplifies Hegelian reconciliation: Scottie exhibits Hegel’s reconciliatory “negation of negation” when he realizes that his lost love Madeleine had really been Judy all along, thereby losing his original loss. Yet Pippin and Žiž…
Kant on the ‘Wise Adaptation’ of Our Cognitive Faculties: The Limits of Knowledge and the Possibility of the Highest Good
This article provides a new reconstruction and evaluation of Kant’s argument in §IX of the second Critique ’s Dialectic. Kant argues that our cognitive faculties are wisely adapted to our practical vocation since their failure to supply theoretical knowledge of God and the immortal soul is a condition of possibility for the highest good. This new reconstruction improves upon past efforts by greater fidelity to the form and content of Kant’s argum…
Derrida’s Neoplatonic Critique of Hegel: On the Gift of Being in Glas
This article argues that Derrida’s critique of Hegel in Glas should be understood as a modified Neoplatonic critique. Specifically, Derrida claims that Hegel’s systematic philosophical account of the speculative identity of Thought and Being is in fact conditioned by the prior unconditional gift of Being, which necessarily lies outside the Hegelian system. I argue that this gift of Being should be understood in terms of the Neoplatonic conception…
Why There Must Be Something Rather Than Nothing: A New Argument From the PSR
This article offers a new argument that there must be something rather than nothing, grounded in the PSR. Inspired by the rationalist tradition running from Parmenides to Spinoza and Leibniz, I argue that there must be something rather than nothing because the contrary would constitute a violation of the PSR. In particular, I argue that, if there was nothing, there could be no sufficient reason for it, since nothing at all would exist to serve as…
Hegel and the Hollywood Western: Violence, Law and the Right of Heroes in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
This article explores the conjunction of Hegel and the Hollywood Western through a close analysis of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, adjudicating between competing readings of Hegel by considering their varied application to the interpretation of the film. In particular, I examine how Pippin’s reformist reading and Žižek’s revolutionary reading of Hegel produce different understandings of key themes of the Hollywood Western, including violence,…
The fate of the immortal soul: Hegel’s reply to Kant’s critique of Mendelssohn
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